What if the Armenian Diaspora stopped asking what it can do for Armenia and began asking what it needs to become in its own right? Drawing on the history of New Julfa, Tigran Yegavian argues for a polycentric Armenian world in which Armenia and the Diaspora remain connected without one being subsumed by the other.
From the unforgiving beauty of Lake Sevan to forgotten photographers, humanist art, Gaza, new commercial galleries and a glossy Armenian romcom, Vigen Galstyan helps the reader navigate a cultural landscape full of contradictions. Along the way, he considers what art remembers, what it resists, and how Armenia's cultural life is changing.
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At the UN General Assembly, Armenia and Azerbaijan presented two visions of a changing regional order. Sossi Tatikyan examines their approaches to multilateralism, foreign policy, peace, connectivity and the conflict’s legacy, highlighting growing convergence alongside persistent differences in how the two countries frame the future.
Using Jorge Luis Borges’ imagined world of Tlön as a lens, Sebouh David Aslanian examines Azerbaijan’s decades-long reinvention of Caucasian Albania, arguing that a fabricated historical narrative has been deployed to appropriate Armenian heritage, erase the region’s Armenian past, and reshape the South Caucasus in the present.
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